Group Legal Manager

SUMMARY:
The Group Legal Manager is responsible for the functional leadership, direction, and compliance and the legal function of the company.

Minimum qualifications: 

• LLB Degree
• Admitted attorney with 14 years’ relevant experience, preferably 7 years’ managerial experience

• MBA or LLM
• Companies Act Training
• King Recommendations Training
• Company Secretarial Practice
• Compliance Management
• Risk Mitigation

• Establishing, developing and directing the vision and strategic objectives for the legal function, which include the alignment of operations, organizational structure, people, processes and technology to the business strategy
• Approving policies and standards regulating key aspects of the legal functions by ensuring that processes are applied to monitor performance against policies and standards.
• Supporting the implementation of decisions taken by the Executive Committee
• Accepting responsibility for driving the legal function to meeting targets for the business
• Taking initiative to drive execution of the duties of Group Legal 
• Functionally reporting to the Executive for Group Legal and Compliance
• Determining the internal management framework and establishing a measurement process for functions managed.
• Reporting on performance at various executive forums.
• Managing control of operations and critical review of the performance of functions managed
• Develop strategies and processes to improve on an ongoing basis.
• Ensuring alignment with core business of Samancor.
• Ensuring that the organisation adheres to the applicable laws and regulations.
• Ensuring that organisational legal matters are managed properly, efficiently and that the relevant and respective interested parties are informed and given proper advice and guidance
• Overseeing delivery of legal services and resources to accomplish corporate goals, strategies and priorities. 
• Initiating strategies for driving profession and customer centric behaviours in the business
• Management of key Joint Ventures, Corporate Secretarial Matters and Group Compliance
• Engaging with other strategic functions to contribute toward the creation of step change in the performance of the organisation.
• Developing relationships with key clients at Executive and other levels to maintain best practices
• Managing communication of the overall group legal, compliance and company secretarial function strategy and direction throughout the organisation to enhance implementation.
• Championing initiatives to attract, coach and retain key talent to build high performance culture within the team
• Directing operations to ensure that policies and procedures are being applied uniformly; that goals, objective and performance standards are met.
• Ensuring compliance with sound corporate governance principles and related mining sector legislation
• Establishing performance contracts with direct reports, monitor performance and provide feedback.

POSITION INFO:
Kindly apply if you meet the minimum requirements. Should you not hear back from us within 2 weeks consider your application as unsuccessful.